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Not to randomly talk about Apothecary Diaries, but almost every time Mao Mao talks about Jinshi she uses the most romantic and poetic terms possible but says them with the banal factuality of a nature documentary narrator, and it is absolutely sending me. Like:

Mao Mao, completely deadpan: He is such a heavenly beauty, people would start wars over him.

Mao Mao, legitimately concerned: I best not put makeup on him. If he were made any more beautiful it would topple nations

Mao Mao, watching girls fawn over Jinshi: This makes sense, he has such otherworldly beauty that he would be irresistible to any woman or man

Mao Mao, as if taking a scientific observation: Something must be amiss with Master Jinshi, usually he glitters like the sun

(I’m not overdramatising, these exact narrations happened)

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The English titles of Chinese shows can be so odd like fangs of fortunes actual title translates to something along the lines of “the great dream returns”. Nobody has any fangs??? There’s very little about fortune?!?!?

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lyr's habit of looking down and smiling makes song mo 1000x more attractive

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wang xingyue's reaction is giving the keeho and theo me and the ghost in my room meme lol.

Wang Xing Yue looked like a fan whose CP gave him after-sales sugar hahahaha

Ding Yuxi fetched Yu Shuxin off the stage; ran over before Yu Shuxin finished speaking. Wang Xingyue didn't realize the seriousness of the matter at first, but his reaction after seeing it was so funny. The director even cut the camera to Zhang Linghe, Zhang Xincheng, Meng Ziyi and Li Yunrui; asked the Blossoms CP if they wanted to do the same.

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Me watching all my favorite dramas:

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stanning an actor thru their historical dramas is so jarring bc you're so used to liking them with their hair snatched from their forehead that they become 10x more attractive in their interviews with hair over their forehead. when i tell you my reaction to wang xingyue and li yunrui...

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I love a man who is unreasonably in love with a woman as much as the next person, but even better to me is a man who is reasonably obsessed with a woman, and that's what I feel like we're getting from Blossom. It isn't just that Song Mo loves Dou Zhao, though he does, but that she has consistently shown her intelligence, willingness to help with his plans, and ability to scheme. He knows how to do military stuff, but she knows when to hold back and how to navigate political nonsense. He doesn't just love her, he actually needs her, and if she married that other useless guy she'd be all busy doing wife stuff and unable to help him.

I loved the servants/soldiers calling her his strategist or teacher for that reason. Dou Zhao has got 20 ish years (I think?) of extra experience and knowledge of the future, she's so useful! And Song Mo knows it! She is the reason he picked back up the swords, she helped him find the evidence of his uncle's murder, and she's going to keep helping him in any way she can. He should love her for that!

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late to the party but i've just witnessed pip fitz amobi's villain origin story in a good girl's guide to murder: i listened to ch 35 with my heart in my throat the whole time omg.

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paik saeon upon receiving an uncharacteristic heart eyes emoji from his wife: immediately folding and planning a whole ass get away as a congratulations for getting the interpreter job, but obviously under the guise of celebrating the first ever national sign interpreters in office or sumn like pls, he thinks he's so slick 🥹✋

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I'm on my fourth Woman Married a Loser and Tried Her Best but Died for It and Now She's Back drama (Marry My Husband, Blossom, The Double, Perfect Marriage Revenge) and I love it, I love it, I love it. Because you can feel the feminine rage radiating from the screen. These women swallowed the lie that they were the problem in their marriage. They forgave and excused and bent over backwards just like society told them to and it didn't work. It was never going to work. In the end, nothing they did mattered and their precious lives were still seen as disposable. And now they are back and they are furious and it's great.

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im cackling, song mo really could not get any with his wife on his own wedding day, the poor guy.

first, dou zhao was eager to share her conspiracy wall then just as they were about to kiss she gets hungry so he grills them some fish. just as they were abt to kiss again, her cousin comes crying saying she's happy for dou zhao but she herself will never find a man. so song mo goes from lining up candidates for his wife's cousin to being exiled from sleeping with his wife by the same cousin who's cuddling with her on his marital bed.

his patience hasn't snapped yet, but i know i'll love to see it 😌

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I'm watching a Chinese drama called Blossom right now and it's doing historical arranged marriage in such an interesting way and it's making me think more about my post about arranged marriage and particularly, what models of marriage has the female character seen growing up?

Because maybe part of why the Sad/Angry at arranged marriage princess/noble woman feels so hollow is because the mother is usually placidly sitting beside her husband pushing for marriage too. If your parents have a fine arranged marriage, what are you so worried about? It can come off more as a petulant kid than a real denunciation if we don't have indication that they really know what they're mad about or afraid of (Eloise Bridgerton...) Especially when they keep emphasizing how the girls are sheltered and ignorant, where did she manage to get this disillusioned?

This drama has so far shown three failed marriages, all unique. One marriage broke down because the husband was sexually assaulting female servants, another because after emotionally supporting her failure of a husband for 10 years, he took a second wife right after getting his dream job (that one felt so real), and the last woman accepted her marriage wouldn't have affection but was appalled when her husband cheated on her with her half-sister as it violated her sense of marital decency and respect.

What I really like the most is the characters mostly buy into, and all of them expect, marriage to be explicitly political. The whole mindset feels a lot more genuine to the time period. No one is Shocked Pikachu Face that they'll be asked to marry someone for family alliance reasons. And the anti-marriage female lead, she earned that opinion. She knows. She's haunted.

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i'm laughing. dou zhao turned wu shan's proposal into a lecture abt how he can't even take care of himself so how can he think abt protecting others and i'm laughing.

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tfw you know wu shan is going to get rejected by the headstrong female lead but his puppy dog character makes you want to root for him anyway. i'll have him so dou zhao can have song mo ahaha.

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i've just started when the phone rings upon recommendation and omg you know when you start shedding tears that it's good (i'm still on ep 2). just wow.

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yes, i am the average enjoyer of isekai, reincarnation and time travel face slapping novels and dramas and what about it.